
The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings (V. 2)
Evidence, Legal Argument, and the Prosecution of Nazi Crimes Against HumanityBy International Military TribunalLength17h 56m
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The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings (V. 2) presents a further portion of the official record of the International Military Tribunal convened at Nuremberg after the Second World War. Preserving courtroom examinations, documentary exhibits, legal arguments, rulings, and related procedural exchanges, the volume reveals how the prosecution and defense constructed competing accounts of Nazi aggression, occupation, persecution, and mass violence. Its style is necessarily forensic rather than literary: cumulative, evidentiary, and institutionally precise. Read within the postwar development of international law, the proceedings illuminate the contested emergence of individual criminal responsibility for crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, while also documenting the rhetoric and limitations of victor-administered justice. The author, identified collectively as the International Military Tribunal, is not a conventional literary figure but the judicial body established by the Allied powers under the London Charter of 1945. Its members, prosecutors, counsel, witnesses, and clerks produced this record in response to the unprecedented task of publicly adjudicating state-sponsored criminality on an international scale. The volume therefore reflects both the Tribunal's legal mandate and the political, moral, and historical pressures surrounding the effort to define accountability after the collapse of Nazi Germany. This volume is indispensable for readers of international law, modern European history, Holocaust studies, political theory, and transitional justice. It rewards close study rather than casual reading, offering primary evidence for examining how facts become legal claims and how institutions attempt to transform catastrophe into precedent. Scholars will value its authenticity and complexity; general readers will find in it a sobering encounter with the painstaking process by which historical crimes were documented, argued, and judged.
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GenrePolitics and Government
Length17 hrs 56 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 20, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Nuremberg Trials: Complete Tribunal Proceedings (V. 4)
2Nuremberg Trials: Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal (V. 2)
3PREFACE
4PRELIMINARY HEARING Wednesday, 14 November 1945
5PRELIMINARY HEARING Thursday, 15 November 1945
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6PRELIMINARY HEARING Saturday, 17 November 1945
7FIRST DAY Tuesday, 20 November 1945
8Morning Session
9Afternoon Session
10SECOND DAY Wednesday, 21 November 1945
11Morning Session
12Afternoon Session
13THIRD DAY Thursday, 22 November 1945
14Morning Session
15Afternoon Session
16FOURTH DAY Friday, 23 November 1945
17Morning Session
18Afternoon Session
19FIFTH DAY Monday, 26 November 1945
20Morning Session
21Afternoon Session
22SIXTH DAY Tuesday, 27 November 1945
23Morning Session
24Afternoon Session
25SEVENTH DAY Wednesday, 28 November 1945
26Morning Session
27Afternoon Session
28EIGHTH DAY Thursday, 29 November 1945
29Morning Session
30Afternoon Session
31NINTH DAY Friday, 30 November 1945
32Morning Session
33Afternoon Session